Hacking for Artists

Swirling wall of moving patterns represents our thoughts By Andy Coghlan Video credit: Engram: Data Sculpture for Melting Memories from Refik Anadol WHAT resembles the wall of an exotic underground grotto is actually a work of art representing the circuitry of the brain in action. Engram / Remember is an incredible moving spectacle, forged from algorithms that convert data about brainwave activity into captivating imagery – this image shows just a single frame. The high-resolution screen starts off showing what seems to be a piece of paper ripping and folding into itself, then morphs into swirling shapes that wriggle and squirm around in an imaginary box. Artist Refik Anadol creates his “data paintings” and other works at the Neuroscape Laboratory at the University of California in San Francisco. Advertisement The artwork is part of the Melting Memories exhibition, recently displayed at the Pilevneli Gallery in Istanbul, Turkey. Refik Anadol/refikanadol.com Photographer Refik Anadol/refikanadol.com More on these topics:

Main Page - Procedural Content Generation Wiki The Original Hacker's Dictionary [This file, jargon.txt, was maintained on MIT-AI for many years, before being published by Guy Steele and others as the Hacker's Dictionary. Many years after the original book went out of print, Eric Raymond picked it up, updated it and republished it as the New Hacker's Dictionary. Unfortunately, in the process, he essentially destroyed what held it together, in various ways: first, by changing its emphasis from Lisp-based to UNIX-based (blithely ignoring the distinctly anti-UNIX aspects of the LISP culture celebrated in the original); second, by watering down what was otherwise the fairly undiluted record of a single cultural group through this kind of mixing; and third, by adding in all sorts of terms which are "jargon" only in the sense that they're technical. This page, however, is pretty much the original, snarfed from MIT-AI around 1988. -- jpd.] Verb doubling: a standard construction is to double a verb and use i as a comment on what the implied subject does. ARG n. BANG n. J.

Harvest, clean cryptocurrencies for climate change Julian Oliver, one of the main writers of the ‘Critical Engineering’ manifesto, has never given up on producing artworks with a concrete side, both universally applicable and opening a space of awareness and sense of contradiction in the public. “Harvest” once more possesses these qualities. It uses a 2m wind turbine connected to a (weatherproof) computer, which is connected to the internet through a 4G uplink. Julian Oliver – Harvest Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python - Chapters Chapter 1 Read online: Chapter 1 - Making Paper Cryptography Tools PDF of the Caesar Cipher WheelInteractive Virtual Cipher Wheel Chapter 2 Read online: Chapter 2 - Downloading and Installing Python Download Python 3Download pyperclip.py Chapter 3 Read online: Chapter 3 - The Interactive Shell Chapter 4 Read online: Chapter 4 - String and Writing Programs Download source: hello.py Copy source to clipboard: Use the online diff tool to find typos in your code: hello.py Chapter 5 Read online: Chapter 5 - The Reverse Cipher Download source: reverseCipher.py Use the online diff tool to find typos in your code: reverseCipher.py Chapter 6 Read online: Chapter 6 - The Caesar Cipher Download source: caesarCipher.py Use the online diff tool to find typos in your code: caesarCipher.py Download source: caesarCipher2.py Use the online diff tool to find typos in your code: caesarCipher2.py Download source: password.py Use the online diff tool to find typos in your code: password.py Download source: password2.py Chapter 7

pouet.net :: your online demoscene resource Surreal X-Ray Photographs Reveal Hidden Beauty in Nature Our human eyes may be limited by visible light, but the work of physicist and artist Arie van 't Riet gives us a glimpse into the invisible universe around us. In exploration of nature’s hidden anatomy, Riet uses x-ray imagery on naturalistic compositions, or bioramas, created from flora and fauna. The challenging photography process requires Riet to experiment with different levels of x-ray energies to achieve the right amount of contrast in each image. Riet, who is a registered medical physicist, first became interested in x-ray photography when a colleague asked him to make an x-ray of a painting. Impressed by the results, Riet experimented with similarly thin materials starting with a bouquet of tulips. The production process begins with a black-and-white silver bromide x-ray image, which he then digitizes and inverts on his computer. In addition to flora, Riet added dead animals such as birds and frogs to enliven and add interest to each composition. + Arie van ‘t Riet

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